by Talking Humanities | Oct 18, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Being Human festival, Events, Features, From the Archives, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Public Engagement, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Professor Clem Seecharan (above) has written some ten books on the colonial history of Guyana including the recent Hand-in-Hand: History of Cricket in Guyana, 1865-1897. As part of this year’s Being Human humanities festival, academics from the Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 11, 2016 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
Dr Michael Eades, who curates the School of Advanced Study’s national Being Human festival of the humanities, provide a glimpse at the events in the 2016 programme. Our theme for the 2016 Being Human festival is ‘Hope and Fear’. We couldn’t have known how well...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 4, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Music, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
L-R: Poland’s Maximilian Maria, South Africa’s Manche Masemola, Uganda’s Archbishop Janani Luwum. West entrance to Westminster Abbey featuring ten Twentieth Century Martyrs © Jean-Christophe Benoist via Wikimedia Commons As part of this year’s Being...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 1, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Public Engagement, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Image: Michael Ohajuru, Dr Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Dr Eva Namusoke, Dr Sumita Mukherjee As part of this year’s Being Human humanities festival, academics from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) and the University of Bristol, have joined forces to form the...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 30, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Events, Features, Graduate Study, History & Classics, Libraries & Publications, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Image: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1. (1797). The Great Fire of London, public domain, Yale Centre for British Art It may be tempting fate to revisit a fire in a library, but as part of this autumn’s Being Human festival, the Institute of Historical Research is...
by Talking Humanities | Mar 22, 2016 | Being Human festival, Features, Public Engagement, Republished
Professor Sarah Churchwell, the School of Advanced Study’s chair of public understanding of the humanities and director of its Being Human festival, says the sciences and the humanities are ‘not opposed, but deeply complementary and interdependent sets of knowledge.’...